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Recording of ICTs for Disaster Management High Level Panel discussion at WSIS 2010

Click here to access the recording of ICTs for Disaster Management, a high level panel discussion at WSIS 2010 on 12 May 2010. The Chairman of the ICT4Peace Foundation, Daniel Stauffacher, was a member of this panel. His presentation begins at 1 hour 8 minutes into the panel discussion. All the recordings from WSIS 2010 are available here.

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Panel description

ICTs play a critical role in disaster predication, monitoring, and detection. ICT can save human lives through the timely dissemination of early warning alerts. In the immediate aftermath of disasters, ICT plays an important role to coordinate search and rescue operations, the supply of food, medicine and other essential services, and in providing critical information to the victims of disasters. Emergency Telecommunications play a critical role in the immediate aftermath of disasters by ensuring timely flow of vital information which is much needed by government agencies, and other humanitarian actors that are involved in rescue operations and providing medical assistance to the injured.

The ICT4Peace Foundation explores and champions the use of ICTs for crisis management, humanitarian aid and peacebuilding, and offers insights, strategic guidance and conduct after-action reviews of ICTs designed and deployed for such purposes. more

Download an archive of the previous ICT4Peace Foundation website here and see it online here

Download the ICT4Peace Foundation report of 2005 on the use of Information and Communications Technologies for peacebuilding (ICT4Peace), with a Preface by Kofi A. Annan, former Secretary General of the United Nations here

An updated version of this report, with critical analysis on current policies and practices of ICTs in peacebuilding and crises was published in early 2011. Published in collaboration with the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University and GeorgiaTech,Peacebuilding in the Information Age: Sifting Hype from Reality can be read here